Jennifer Ann "Jen" Kirkman (born August 28, 1974) is an American stand-up comedian, screenwriter, and actress. She is known for her regular appearances as a round-table panelist on Chelsea Lately, as well as for her appearances on the Funny or Die sketch series Drunk History, and its 2013 continuation television series on Comedy Central. She has released two comedy albums, Self Help (2006) and Hail to the Freaks (2011). Her debut book, I Can Barely Take Care of Myself: Tales From a Happy Life Without Kids, was published in April 2013, and became a New York Times bestseller.

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Kirkman was born in Needham, Massachusetts, and is the youngest of three sisters, and has a nephew named Buffalo Hird. She is a longtime vegetarian. She is of German, Polish, French-Canadian and English heritage.

Kirkman majored in acting at Emerson College in Boston.

On August 21, 2009, Kirkman married writer/director Neil Mahoney in a private ceremony at the Wayside Inn in Sudbury, Massachusetts. On the August 25, 2011 episode of Chelsea Lately, Kirkman revealed she was no longer married. On the January 14, 2012 episode of the Pod F. Tompkast, she confirmed that she and Mahoney had divorced.